Giving God Your 2 Cents Worth

Mark 12:38 - 13:2

13 large trumpet shaped receptacles for coins.

Mark 5. The Widow’s Gift (12:41–44)

The lepton was the smallest coin in circulation in Palestine and was worth 1/64 of a denarius, a day’s wages for a common laborer. It was not in circulation in the western part of the Roman Empire, where Mark apparently wrote. Therefore he explained that two lepta had the same value as a kodrantēs,

Mark 5. The Widow’s Gift (12:41–44)

She gave her entire livelihood; he gave his very life. As Paul put it, “You know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, so that you through his poverty might become rich” (2 Cor 8:9).

Relate to the 3 questions earlier.

Relate to when Jesus cleanses the temple.

She might not be a hero but rather she might be a victim.

does not say that the rich gave too little or that they had a bad attitude.

Send me your money and God will bless you. It is a religious scam and it hurts the most vulnerable.

The heart beat of a false teacher is send me your money and I will bless you.

James 1:27 CSB

Pure and undefiled religion before God the Father is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself unstained from the world.

Luke 14:7–10 CSB

He told a parable to those who were invited, when he noticed how they would choose the best places for themselves: “When you are invited by someone to a wedding banquet, don’t sit in the place of honor, because a more distinguished person than you may have been invited by your host. The one who invited both of you may come and say to you, ‘Give your place to this man,’ and then in humiliation, you will proceed to take the lowest place. “But when you are invited, go and sit in the lowest place, so that when the one who invited you comes, he will say to you, ‘Friend, move up higher.’ You will then be honored in the presence of all the other guests.

You may feel like a victim but that does not be you cannot also be a hero.

Faith happens when we do the right thing in real life.

There are a lot of experts on doing the right thing. And there are a lot of questions and made up scenarios about when that should or might look like. But in real life is where faith happens.